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Journey nabs six nominations at 2013 GDC Awards
Journey continues its amazing end-of-the-year award run with six 2013 Game Developers Choice Award nominations, more than any other game.
Journey is up for Game of the Year, as well as Best Audio, Best Game Design, Best Downloadable Game, Best Visual Arts, and the Innovation award. The four other nominees that Journey will be competing against for Game of the Year include Dishonored (four total nominations), The Walking Dead (three total nominations), Mass Effect 3 (two total nominations), and XCOM: Enemy Unknown (two total nominations).
The 2013 GDC Awards will be handed out on Wednesday, March 27 during this year’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. You can find the complete list of nominees after the break. (more…)
Posted in 3DS, Mobile, News, PC, PS3, Vita, Wii U, Xbox 360
Tagged Dishonored, Journey, Mass Effect 3, The Walking Dead, XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Ni No Kuni, The Cave, Just Dance 4, Dust 514, Disgaea 2, more added to PS Store
It’s another big week for Sony’s PlayStation Store this week.
This week’s big new release is Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch, Level-5’s collaboration with Studio Ghibli that has locked JRPG aficionados into a frenzy. And speaking of collaborations, adventure game The Cave marks the first team-up of Ron Gilbert and Double Fine Productions.
What else, what else… Today is the first day of the Dust 514 open beta and the PS2 Classic Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories has been added to the store to go with last week’s addition of the first game. Finally, Ubisoft has added a download version of Just Dance 4 to the PlayStation Store.
Hit the jump for more information on this week’s new releases (including Ninja Gaiden Sigma and a new PSP game) and check out the PlayStation Blog for an overview of this week’s new game add-ons. (more…)
Posted in News, PS3, PSP, Vita
Tagged Dust 514, Just Dance 4, Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch, The Cave
Classic White PS3 bundle includes a year of PlayStation Plus
Sony has announced a white PlayStation 3 Slim, coming to the United States on January 27. This 500GB machine will cost $299.99, and will include a one-year subscription to PlayStation Plus, which means 18 instant games – well, that is, if you’ve got a Vita. If not, it’s a measly 12 free games. And there’s even more good news: if you’re already a Plus member, the year subscription extends the one you’ve already got. For more information, check out the PlayStation Blog.
2013 Writers Guild Award for Videogame Writing nominees announced
The Writers Guild of America has announced the nominees for their 2013 Writers Guild Awards, and with them, the nominees for “Outstanding Achievement in Videogame Writing.”
To be eligible for consideration, this year’s nominees include games that were released between December 1, 2011 and November 30, 2012 on featured on-screen writing credits. This year, the Guild has continued their love affair with Ubisoft and the Uncharted series by bestowing nominations on Assassin’s Creed III, Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation, and Uncharted: Golden Abyss. Other nominated games for 2013 include Halo 4, 007 Legends, and Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two.
The 2013 Writers Guild Awards will take place on Sunday, February 17, 2013. A complete list of the nominated writers and editors can be found after the break. (more…)
Posted in News, PC, PS3, Vita, Wii, Wii U, Xbox 360
Tagged 007 Legends, Assassin's Creed III, Assassin's Creed III: Liberation, Epic Mickey 2, Halo 4, Uncharted: Golden Abyss
MotoGP 13 races onto PC, PS3, Xbox 360, Vita in June
Milestone, an Italian development team, has announced that they’ve begun work on MotoGP 13, the latest iteration of the motorcycle racing simulation series. MotoGP 13 is currently scheduled to be released in June 2013 for the PC, PS3, Xbox 360, and Vita.
Milestone’s last MotoGP-licensed game was 2008’s MotoGP 08. So for MotoGP 13, the developer has created a brand new gameplay engine that they say will allow enhanced “graphics, physics, bikes, environment modeling and in-game sound.”
“We’re very proud to announce MotoGP 13. After four years, [we] have the license again in our hands and we’d like to put all the expertise we have developed during this time into the game. This new project will offer players the chance to experience a brand new MotoGP game that will include the most-loved features plus brand new ones,” said Luisa Bixio, Milestone’s Marketing and Sales Director.
MotoGP 13 will include all the tracks and riders from the 2013 MotoGP season, as well as Quick Race Mode and a first-person/third-person Career Mode.
Journey lands 11 nominations at 2013 DICE Awards
The Interactive Achievement Awards will be sporting a new look in 2013, but they’ve managed to recognize the great games all the same. Now known as the DICE Awards, Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences revealed their picks for the best games of the year this morning, nominating thatgamecompany’s Journey for an astonishing 11 awards.
The game is up for… deep breath… Game of the Year, Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction, Outstanding Innovation in Gaming, Downloadable Game of the Year, Casual Game of the Year, Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction, Outstanding Achievement in Gameplay Engineering, Outstanding Achievement in Online Gameplay, Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition, Outstanding Achievement in Sound Design, and Outstanding Achievement in Story.
Other Game of the Year contenders include Borderlands 2, Far Cry 3, The Walking Dead, and XCOM: Enemy Unknown. All four of those games are up for multiple awards, along with other big hitters like Halo 4 (six nominations) and Dishonored (five nominations).
The 2013 DICE Awards will be given out on February 7 during the 2013 DICE Summit. Our host for the evening will be Chris Hardwick, best known as the host of The Nerdist and Telltale’s Talking Dead (hmmm…).
The complete list of nominees can be found after the break. (more…)
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Tagged Borderlands 2, Far Cry 3, Journey, The Walking Dead, XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Andrew McCutchen steals the MLB 13: The Show cover spot
Andrew McCutchen, the center fielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates, has been selected by fans as the cover athlete for Sony’s upcoming baseball sim, MLB 13: The Show.
With 108,148 total votes, “Cutch” annihilated the competition, finishing with almost 20,000 votes more than the second place C.C. Sabathia. The rest of the vote totals shook out like so:
3rd: Miguel Cabrera
4th: Matt Kemp
5th: Bryce Harper
6th: Buster Posney
7th: Ryan Braun
Poor Ryan Braun only only got 13,153 votes. Guess they don’t play a lot of PlayStation in Milwaukee. Must be a Microsoft town.
MLB: The Show will be available for the PS3 and Vita on March 5.
Posted in News, PS3, Vita
Tagged MLB 13: The Show
Square Enix Europe promises update on Final Fantasy X HD soon
It’s not much to go on, but Square Enix Europe has taken to Twitter to reassure Final Fantasy fans that an update on Final Fantasy X HD is coming soon:
@dannymason1986 The world will get answers soon, we promise.
— SQUARE ENIX EUROPE (@SQUARE_ENIX_EU) January 10, 2013
Final Fantasy X HD was announced for the PS3 and Vita during the 2011 Tokyo Game Show and we’ve heard nary a peep about the project since then. So any acknowledgement of the game, even the vague promises of more information coming “soon,” is something to celebrate.
Posted in News, PS3, Vita
Tagged Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster